'Tere Bin Laden' grosses 50 million in opening weekend

Tere Bin Laden the small-budget satire about a fake Osama Bin Laden has come out on top of the box-office, grossing over 50 million rupees in it's opening weekend.

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PTI

New Delhi

July 20, 2010

UPDATED: July 20, 2010 18:36 IST

Tere Bin Laden the small-budget satire about a fake Osama Bin Laden has come out on top of the box-office, grossing over 50 million rupees in it's opening weekend.

The film beat off competition from the star studded Kashmir drama Lamhaa and Vikramaditya Motwane's Cannes entry Udaan.

The comedy which marks the acting debut of Pakistani popstar Ali Zafar as an over-ambitious television reporter who uses a Bin Laden lookalike as his ticket to US, is finding favour with the multiplex audiences.

The film by debutante director Abhishek Sharma which grabbed headlines after being banned by Pakistani censors, is doing well in the overseas market too, said producers Pooja Shetty Deora and Aarti Shetty in a press statement.

"The film has already grossed 150,000 USD from the UK, UAE, and Australian territories. Encouraged by the strong response Boney Kapoor's BSK Network & Entertainment, distributors of the film are planning to widen the release by an additional 40-50 prints in the second week," said the statement.

Meanwhile Anurag Kashyap's production Udaan, a growing-up saga about a 17-year-old played by debutante Rajat Barmecha, has not been able to convert international critical acclaim into box office revenue.

"In terms of occupancy, both Tere Bin Laden and Lamhaa has had 60-65 per cent audience turn out, but 'Udaan' is lagging behind with 25 per cent. The movies are also of different genres so that could have effected the turn out.